Word: leginska
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Left center-Josef Lhévinne, Alexander Brailowsky, Ethel Leginska and Myra Hess...
...deathless music plays-are nevertheless observed to close their eyes. Are they lamentable creatures? Poor dolts who have no eye for the noble, no ear for the exquisite? Long have they been so considered by those other operagoers whose eyes remain open. Not so are they regarded by Miss Leginska, English pianist-composer-conductor, whose opera written around Thackeray's story The Rose and the Ring is soon to have its premiere. She holds the theory that these 40-winkers close their eyes, not because they are bored, but because they fear to be disenchanted. They are those idealists...